Generation fell 8.1% in June to the weakest reading in seven years, while Eskom’s fleet ran better than at any point since 2017.
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The rules meant to stop capital leaving have accelerated it, says the co-founder of the country’s first rand stablecoin.
A rand stablecoin built for corporate treasuries has been launched just as Pretoria moves to fence those treasuries off.
Customer quiet-quitting is the bill for shortcuts taken years ago. By the time it shows up in the numbers, they have already gone.
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South Africans have already gone digital at the till. Visa is betting their employers are next.
Broadcom’s CEO says the chip matches Nvidia’s Blackwell, as AI labs scramble for alternatives to scarce GPUs.
Being late to the party isn’t the real problem – it’s showing up with nothing new to offer.
Take-Two Interactive has announced the pricing for the highly anticipated GTA 6, which it will launch in November.
Dual-listed lender Investec is putting Microsoft’s AI assistant on every desk in South Africa and the UK.
Anthropic has launched an AI agent in the Slack app that can work alongside employees in group chats.
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The world should watch out bubbles in financial markets, the head of the World Economic Forum has warned.
Mastercard is in talks to acquire crypto start-up Zerohash for between $1.5-billion and $2-billion, Fortune reported.
Beijing has long been irked by Washington’s export controls that ban Nvidia from selling its most advanced AI chips to China.
Nvidia has agreed to pay $1-billion for a stake of 2.9% in Nokia as part of a deal focused on AI and data centres.
